ON

ENGLISH HISTORY

AND

TRAGIC POETRY,

AS ILLUSTRATED BY SHAKSPEARE.

BY

HENRY REED,

LATE PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

"Dramation est veluti Historia spectabilis; nam constituit imaginem rerum tanquam presentium: Historia,

sutem, tanquam præteritarum."-Bacon, de Augm. Sc. lib. ii. ch. xiii.

PHILADELPHIA:

PARRY & M M I L LAN,

SUCCESSORS TO A. HART, LATE CAREY & HART.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by

WILLIAN B. REED, in the Clerk's Office of the District Cours of the United States for the Eastern

District of Pennsylvania.

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PHIL: DELPHIA.

Frinted iy T. K. & P. G. Collins.